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Re: How to add a title to xterm


On Wed, 7 Dec 2005 06:54:41 -0000, fergus <fergus@bonhard.uklinux.net> wrote:
>
> > How to add a title to xterm?
>
> I do not use startx: for me, it sets up unnecessary or inconvenient
> defaults.

You can always set the xterm title by sending it the string: Esc ] 0 ;
<your title> ^G . You can do it from the xterm application (writing to
/dev/tty or stdout if its connected, or externally, by writing to
/dev/tty<n> [Cygwin] or /dev/pts/<n> [Linux]).

Bellow is a small script that update the title if it is run on an
interactive xterm (the 2nd is a tty emulator written here).

Ehud


#! /bin/sh -e
# this script sets the TTY title to 1st argument
# --------------------------------------------------

if [ -t 1 ] ; then                             # do only if stdout is terminal
    TTL=`echo "$1" | sed -e "s/ [ ]*/ /g"`     # any length of spaces to 1 space
    case "$TERM" in
        xter* ) echo "\033]0;$TTL\a\c"         # write it to xterm window title
                ;;
        npc* )  DTTL=`echo "$TTL\c" | od -An -tu1 -v | tr "\012" " " | sed -e "s/ [ ]*/;/g"`
                echo "\033[=/${DTTL:1:999};253;t\c"    # For Mivtach Simon TTY
                ;;
    esac
fi

############################## set_tty_title ##############################


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